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January 25, 2009

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Apple Celebrates Mac 25th Anniversary

Venture Beat has the details about Mac 25th birthday

25 years ago today, on January 24, 1984, the first Macintosh computer went on sale. Now better known as the “Mac,” the name came from the Apple employee who created the project, Jef Raskin, who wanted to name it after his favorite kind of apple, McIntosh, but had to tweak the name for legal rights.

This original Macintosh came with 128 kilobytes of RAM (it would later become known as the Macintosh 128K) and featured a 8 MHz Motorola 68000 microprocessor. It had a 9-inch black and white CRT screen and featured a 400 kB, single-sided 3.5-inch floppy disk drive. The price? $2,495, which in today’s dollars would have been well over $5,000.

The computer featured the signatures of the entire Apple Macintosh division molded inside the case. Those name include Raskin, Apple chief executive Steve Jobs, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and many others.

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  1. Jan 25 2009

    Apple…Great

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  2. Jan 25 2009

    Coba dibarengi dengan bagi-bagi hadiah :)

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  3. Jan 25 2009

    Apple Mac is really great….

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  4. Jan 25 2009

    It’s a good way to increase their selling in economic crisis as rolling on. I think discount’s program is effective way to grow it in the middle a weak market. These way are needed by all of producers including branded producers such as Macintosh.

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  5. Feb 7 2009

    I’d like to have it, but I couldn’t

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